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Andrew deCoriolis is the Executive Director of Farm Forward where he advocates for safe, healthy, and humane farming. Andrew is an expert in animal welfare standards, certifications, and policy. He works with food companies, universities and cities to help them improve the welfare of animals and increase the proportion of plant based food in their supply chains. Andrew was responsible for creating and launching the Leadership Circle, a program aimed at helping institutions source more climate friendly food. Andrew’s work at Farm Forward has been covered in leading periodicals including The New York Times, Wired, and Civil Eats. Andrew is currently an advisor to the WellBeings charity, the Game Changers Institute, The Good Food Purchasing Program, and the State Innovation Exchange and is a board member of FindHumane.com. Andrew lives in Portland Oregon with his partner, two kids and rescue mutt Tater Tot.

The Juicy Bits:

The end of factory farming is more likely than the end of farming animals in general for food.
Factory farming is a method of farming, and it is also a set of laws, policies, and economic structures that enable a certain kind of farming.
Since the Cold War, the USDA privatized industrial meat production for economic and political gain.
People do not want antibiotics, drugs, chemicals, and contamination in their food.
Humanewashing is like greenwashing, the use of marketing by companies to give the public the impression that their products align with your values.
Because most people don't want meat, dairy, and eggs with drugs in them, there are layers of humanewashing: unregulated terms like all natural, humanely-raised, sustainable, cage free, and pasture raised; and unregulated certifications like certified human and animal welfare certified.
The food industry doesn't do testing for antibiotics, because they don't want to know if they're there. If they know, then they'll have to solve the problem, and that's expensive.
Andrew's favorite foods: cauliflower shwarma, Beyond Beef steak tips

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